Lead Process Safety Engineer

Lead Process Safety Engineer JD:

• Risk Analysis & Identification: Identifying potential hazards (fire, explosion, toxicity) and evaluating risks using techniques like HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA and QRA.
• Design Safety Integration: Ensuring that process technology, design, and control systems inherently minimize risk.
• Safety Critical Elements (SCE): Identifying and ensuring the integrity of equipment designed to prevent, control, or mitigate hazards.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring all designs meet international standards like NFPA, API, ASME, and IEC, as well as local regulations like OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM).
• Developing critical documents such as Hazardous Area Classification, Fire & Gas (F&G) layouts, and Escape Route layouts, safety management systems, procedures, and reports.
• Safety System Design: Designing active and passive firefighting systems, emergency shutdown systems, and pressure relief/ flare systems.
• Inherently Safer Design (ISD): Applying principles like "minimizing" or "substituting" hazardous materials at the earliest design stages to eliminate risks before they are built.
• Sound knowledge in Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESD) and Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL).
• Consequence Modeling: Using specialized software (e.g., PHAST) to simulate gas dispersion, explosion impacts, and thermal radiation to determine safe equipment spacing.
• ALARP Demonstrations: Formal reports proving that risks have been reduced to "As Low As Reasonably Practicable"
• Safety Philosophies: High-level documents defining the project's approach to fire protection, emergency isolation, and hazardous area classification.

Work Experience:

Required Qualifications & Background

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in chemical, or Process Safety Engineering.
• Experience: Usually, 8+ years of experience in Process Safety design, particularly in Oil & Gas, chemicals, or manufacturing.
• Software & Tools: Proficiency in simulation tools for dispersion, fire, and explosion modeling.
• Core Competencies: Strong analytical skills, communication, and the ability to influence design decisions.

Technical Tools & Software

Engineers to be conversant with specialized modeling and simulation software:

• PHAST (by DNV): Used for consequence modeling (dispersion, fire, and explosion analysis).
• AFT Fathom / Pipenet: For hydraulic calculations of firewater and safety systems.
• Flaresim: For modeling flare radiation and thermal effects.
• AutoCAD: For drafting safety layouts and P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams).